If it was really to “stop Communism”, we could have done it 90 miles south of FL.
No. Vietnam War was “Johnson’s War” because of the ineptitude shown by JFK and “The Best and The Brightest” in that Administration for allowing the Bay of Pigs to fail and embarrassment of the Missile Crisis.
Plain and simple.
A HORRIBLE MISTAKE that to this day has cast a national PTSD into our national psyche.
War to stop communism is a fine idea. A war to crush it beyond recovery is even better. Our elites sent Americans to be killed and maimed in a war with no intention of winning it. Nixon was no better than t han LBJ. He not only did not let our troops fight to win the war, he also went to Red China and shook hands with the killers who were aiding North Vietnam in killing Americans.